Color & View Magnifier

- [Man] Next, we'll look at our View Magnifier,…which allows us to, of course, zoom in to see an area.…Now, we can hold the Control key…or Command key on a Mac to zoom out.…Okay, and you click with the left button…with that and you can zoom and it's fairly easy.…Sometimes, it's a world of difference…when you're able to do this,…so you can get in and get your work done.…You also have your color icon…and with the color icon,…what we can do is we can paint areas of our figure.…

Let's go ahead and zoom this out…and we can click on, let's say, his shirt…and we can set the color,…click on his pants…and so this has basically provided a bit…of an override color over his outfit…because remember he was wearing some blue pants before,…which weren't this shade of blue…and so now if we were to do an Area Render here,…let's just get this much…and we'll see the result of coloring.…

And so we can see that what's happened is…we've actually put colors that override…the original default materials that were there,…so this is an easy way of starting with the clothing…

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1/2/2007

Poser 7 is one of the most enjoyable applications for creating realistic animated 3-D characters. In Poser 7 Essential Training, instructor Larry Mitchell explains how to design, pose, and animate 3-D characters using the program's intuitive interface, tools, and workflow. The training covers everything from essential animation principles to working on the intricate details of individual body parts and complicated facial expressions. Larry also teaches the minute steps required to create characters that can lip-synch to recorded sound files. Advanced topics, such as incorporating HDRI lighting, animating to reference videos, and integrating Poser 7 and Vue 6, add to the full learning experience. Exercise files accompany the tutorials.